The West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program (WV-AEPP) was created by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The WV-AEPP is located within the Bureau for Public Health’s Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease.

The mission of the WV-AEPP is to develop, implement, and evaluate a statewide strategic asthma plan in the ultimate interest of reducing the health and economic consequences attributed to asthma in West Virginia. The WV-AEPP aspires to highlight asthma as a priority health concern and to reduce suffering, disability, death, and economic costs related to asthma by:

• Developing a broad-based statewide asthma planning, implementation, and evaluation group. 
• Analyzing existing data sources to determine the prevalence, cost, and burden of asthma. 
• Developing a statewide asthma surveillance system 
• Publishing and disseminating a report on asthma 
• Developing a statewide plan and recommendations to address asthma 
• Developing and implementing asthma interventions

CLICK HERE or go to http://www.wvasthma.org to visit the West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention full website.